Debate Erupts Over Whether LLMs Can Feel Pain
After GitHub took down an 'LLM torture' repo, researchers clashed over machine suffering: skeptics say no one is home inside models, while others argue there's no accepted test proving AI can't suffer.
2026-10-02 ~ 2026-10-02 · 4 related posts
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